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Ghostface Killah Performs Live On Jimmy Kimmel, Blessedly Free Of Autotune

It's like I've died and woken up in heaven. Airy organ, shimmery space-dust chimes, the gentle plinklings of harp strings and... Ghostface Killah! See, despite it's impeccable title and a totally Ozsome cover, my favorite rapper's latest album, Ghostdini: The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City is not one of his best, marred as it is by oversheened production and a gross excess of autotune. So how good it was to see him perform the single "Baby" on Jimmy Kimmel last night, accompanied by a live band with a goofy-looking percussionist doing a silly dance and Raheem DeVaughn singing the chorus without the detriment of the computerized voice-modulation effect. (It is a nice, sunny love song, isn't it, with it's nod to Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely?") And that harp! Someone tell Joanna Newsom: Ghostface wants to tap that.